How to Use vociferous in a Sentence

vociferous

adjective
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  • He was vociferous in his support of the proposal.
  • He is her most vociferous critic.
  • The decision was made over their vociferous objections.
  • The act of slamming a ball in one vociferous swoop is one of the stagiest things a player can do.
    — Katie Heindl, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Amid all the vociferous opinions, some just want a chance to see for themselves.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The vociferous boos didn’t affect Altuve, who had a pair of hits.
    — Joe Reedy, ajc, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The idea was met with ridicule even from some of Trump’s most vociferous supporters.
    — Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Some of those countries were among the pact's most vociferous opponents when it was first reached in 2015.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The checkpoints arrive during a time of vociferous debate over the role of law enforcement in the city.
    — Michael Gold, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Yet many of them are most vociferous in their support of the death penalty, fighting any attempts to abolish it.
    — Robert Moore, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
  • There certainly wasn't a vociferous demand to cut the Badgers a break and lower the threshold.
    — Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 10 Dec. 2020
  • One almost suspects that, for some of the most vociferous defenders of Depp online, the misogyny is the point.
    — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 17 May 2022
  • In the cavernous climate of pandemic baseball, the most vociferous barbs tend to be heard quite clearly.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The rush of Trump books — basically its own genre this year — continued with this missive from the vociferous Fox host.
    — Angela Haupt, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Some of the most vociferous objections to incorporation came from those with land at the distant edges of town.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Williams took a lot of heat on social media from fans who were upset with his postgame comments about taking issue with vociferous boos from the home crowd last week.
    — Art Stapleton, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021
  • One spouse in this couple is quite aggressive, vociferous and rude.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Peterson, who’s been very vociferous against his former team, will play the Cardinals in the second game.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Signal is one of the few successful tech products, like the Firefox browser, led by vociferous critics of Big Tech.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Since then, Fix has become a vociferous critic of treating Alzheimer’s patients with drugs.
    — Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
  • Moore campaigned against Biden in the Democratic primary and was one of the most vociferous supporters of his main rival Bernie Sanders.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The VIPs would, of course, be seated separately onstage — not six feet apart, but not amid the storm of exhalations, coughs, vociferous cheers and sneezes.
    — Washington Post, 23 June 2020
  • Those demands grew more vociferous as winter turned to spring and Russia’s war against Ukraine rocked energy markets and gas prices soared.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2022
  • And last week, Fox chose not to renew the contract of one of the most vociferous election deniers on its payroll, Dan Bongino, formerly the host of a Saturday evening show.
    — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Apple is said to be working on touchscreen Macs, though this would run counter to over a decade of vociferous public objection to the very idea of touchscreens in computers.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Le Pen, known for her vociferous rhetoric, sought to soften her image as the leader of the National Rally during this year's election.
    — Ibtissem Guenfoud, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2022
  • As the ball dropped through the rim, Garland let out a vociferous groan, admonishing himself for that carelessness.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Watson, alarmed that the volunteer-run pantry would be taken away, raised a red flag in a place where the city’s residents sound off and hold vociferous debates: the Takoma Park Facebook group.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Be on the lookout for more vociferous, courageous leaders to emerge after July 17.
    — ELLE, 2 June 2023
  • As the country burned, politicians and a vociferous Murdoch media (which may since have done a U-turn) belittled and mocked climate change activists.
    — Katherine Tulich, Variety, 13 Sep. 2021

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